{"id":1542,"date":"2018-10-24T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2018-10-24T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:40:42","slug":"opposition-attacks-and-surrounds-government-for-removal-of-cbi-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Opposition attacks and surrounds government for removal of CBI director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>Opposition attacks govt for removal of CBI director: Opposition parties Wednesday slammed the government for CBI Director Alok Verma&#8217;s removal amid an escalating feud between him and his deputy Rakesh Asthana, with the Congress dubbing it the &#8220;last nail&#8221; in the agency&#8217;s independence and the CPI(M) calling it illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Adding its voice to the debate, the Aam Aadmi Party asked the reasons for sending the CBI director on leave. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala wondered if Verma was &#8220;sacked&#8221; for his keenness to probe the &#8220;layers of corruption&#8221; in the Rafale scam and sought an answer from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Modi govt buries the &#8216;last nail&#8217; into the independence of CBI. Systematic dismantling &amp; denigrating of CBI is now complete. Once a premier investigating agency, PM ensures that CBI&#8217;s integrity, credibility &amp; reliability is buried &amp; dead,&#8221; Surjewala said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment either from the government or the ruling BJP on the allegations levelled by opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PM Modi has demonstrated the true colour of his infamous &#8216;Modi Made Gujarat Model&#8217; by this cloak-and-dagger mugging of CBI. Has the CBI Director been sacked for his keenness to probe the layers of corruption in Rafale Scam? Isn&#8217;t the rest a shoddy cover up? Let PM answer!&#8221; the Congress leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Opposition attacks govt for removal of CBI director: Opposition parties Wednesday slammed the government for CBI Director Alok Verma&#8217;s removal amid an escalating feud between him and his deputy Rakesh Asthana, with the Congress dubbing it the &#8220;last nail&#8221; in the agency&#8217;s independence and the CPI(M) calling it illegal. Adding its voice to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}